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and  should  show  to  manufacturers  and  dealers  the  desirability  of  a 
-closer  approach  in  quality  to  the  advertised  claims. 
It  is  well  known  that  not  a  few  chemical  products  are  marketed 
below  the  official  standard,  and  it  is  impossible  for  the  pharmacist 
to  obtain  a  quality  that  will  exempt  him  from  breaking  the  health 
laws  that  adopt  the  Pnarmacopceia  as  a  standard.  The  use  of  the 
terms  "  pure,"  "  purified,"  "chemically  pure"  is  very  loose  in  the 
ordinary  channels  of  trade  and  in  many  cases  is  meaningless.  The 
buyer  assumes  that  they  have  a  positive  significance  when  they  may 
have  a  relative  meaning  only.  A  systematic  examination  and  state- 
ment of  this  condition  should  be  of  practical  benefit  to  pharmacy 
and  medicine. 
In  the  Section  o?i  Education  and  Legislation  papers  are  expected 
giving  the  progress  in  these  fields  during  the  past  fifty  years  in  this 
country.  Brief  papers  relating  to  interesting  questions  during  their 
respective  terms  of  office  will  be  read  by  all  the  living  ex-presidents 
of  the  Association.  The  special  committee  appointed  by  the  Asso- 
ciation to  look  into  the  matter  of  the  acquirement  of  drug  habits, 
of  which  the  chairman  is  H.  P.  Hynson,  Baltimore,  Md.,  will  make 
an  interesting  report  with  practical  recommendations  to  this  sec- 
tion. Various  other  subjects,  as  methods  of  teaching  and  the 
extension  of  the  curriculum  in  colleges,  will  be  considered.  Papers 
or  titles  should  be  sent  as  soon  as  possible  to  either  the  Chairman, 
E.  G.  Eberle,  Dallas,  Tex.,  or  the  Secretary,  J.  W.  T.  Knox,  Detroit, 
Mich. 
The  officers  ol  the  Section  on  Practical  Pharmacy  and  Dispensing 
are  likely  to  receive  a  liberal  number  of  papers  in  response  to  the 
list  of  suggestions  sent  out  by  the  committee  in  the  early  part  of 
the  year.  Indeed,  the  Council  has  been  asked  to  make  some  pro- 
vision for  holding  two  sessions  of  the  section  instead  of  only  one,  as 
provided  in  the  by-laws.  Besides  the  discussion  of  prescription 
difficulties  and  notes  on  dispensing,  the  committee  expects  to  have 
several  papers  relating  to  pharmacy  and  dispensing  as  practised 
fifty  years  ago.  Papers  should  be  sent  to  either  the  Chairman, 
George  W.  Sloan,  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  or  to  the  Secretary,  VVm.  F. 
Kaemmerer,  Columbus,  O. 
The  Committee  on  Exhibits  has  arranged  for  an  unusual  exhibi- 
tion of  rare,  curious  and  interesting  relics  that  relate  to  pharmacy 
and  which  will  serve  to  illustrate  the  advance  made  in  the  profes- 
